Explain what this agreement would do.

Yeah, I mean, and especially in light of the announcement last week up in Joslin, this becomes a little bit even more of a significant deal.

But they have been a supplier all the way back to Admiral at that location.

They were considering shutting down and between here and they have a facility in South Carolina and thankfully with the help of Ken Springer and his colleagues at KCAP worked with the state of Illinois to provide not a tremendous amount of incentive but essentially what it does is it gets them to commit to keeping this facility open.

The one in South Carolina will close.

They'll move one of their lines up here, retain the existing jobs, and then with the goal of expanding in the future.

Obviously, the appliance market right now is a little tough, but it keeps them here in Galesburg, keeps them operational, and of those jobs that are there currently, obviously there's a little bit of incentive for them to expand and At one time, they've been up closer to 80 to 100 jobs in long term.

Wrapping up with Guilford City Manager Eric Hansen ahead of tonight's meeting, you know, outside the agenda, what's your team working on right now?

Tell us why this is a

good deal.

Yeah, no, I mean, this is our next step towards, you know, better water quality.

And obviously, you know, we're fortunate.

We've been studying opportunities to find... water sources nearby the plant that don't require removal of forever chemicals.

And we successfully located sites that were already within city-owned property, so we don't have to do any property acquisition.

And we tested some sites in nearby fields that would have required that, but this allows us to start the process.

uh still with us gillsburg city manager eric hansen uh tomorrow night national night out we're going to actually hear from chief legate here and after the news tell us all the details but you know from the city's standpoint why does an event like this matter

Tell our audience why this is a good deal.

Yeah, well, I mean, this is something we've been working on a long time and obviously something the county has been, you know, pushing for and trying to find a pathway.

And I think this is a great step.

Obviously, the state, especially in federal guidelines, they've really been pushing for more access for rural transit.

And as the only transit provider in Knox County, it was obviously a good fit.

This is something that's been on the discussion board now for at least a few years.

Really appreciate County Board Chairman for his support and his efforts.

But tell us what this project is.

And then how did you get to this?

Well, we got to this by, I mean, it started out as a hobby.

We got a small sample of unroasted cocoa beans from a direct trade distributor, and that's someone who deals directly with the farms or the co-ops that produce the beans.

And we roasted them in our kitchen oven, the cocoa beans, because you have to roast them to really bring the flavor out.

And then you have to remove the shells.

And so the only tools we had to do that were our thumbs and fingers.

So we did that for the first while, and that was the sort of activity that makes you want to seek automation really quickly because it's painful to remove those shells.

So how did you get to that?

Talk about that.

Yeah, you know, this is a new initiative and an ongoing effort, you know, for our organization to work to give back to the community and not that a lot of city staff aren't already involved, but you know they put together a group galesburg gives it's entirely volunteer driven but it's comprised of staff across the city who are looking at opportunities to engage and help organizations within the within the community this year this this this not this year this summer's kickoff is a food drive for the food pantries and so there'll be staff in the square, not this Friday, but the Friday after, you'll see a big red fire truck and obviously staff from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. collecting food and donations to support.

Obviously there's huge demand at the pantries for food and a lot of that or some of that even ends up at places like the rescue mission and the shelter and those kind of things.

So the staff coming together volunteering their time and taking part in both raising awareness, but also, you know, collecting food and in an effort to give back.

And I'm pretty excited about that.

I mean, it says a lot about our organization and all of these things, you know, whether it's city driven or not, it says a lot about our community.

You know, Midwesterners tend to help each other and This is another example, but I'm really proud of the work that the staff have done putting this together and excited to see the results.

How did the idea kind of come

Eric Hansen is senior vice president, head of government relations at the US Travel Association there.

I think the industry is taking all precautions.

They're taking everything seriously.

If it does happen, uh, if CBP officers are removed from international airports, I do think we'll see scenes of chaos.

There are no viable alternatives, uh, to land large numbers of international carriers at reliever airports.

We think many flights would be canceled, and we think, uh, travelers would be dissuaded from coming to the United States.

And so we've gotta make sure that that's widely known, and that's what we're, we're doing now.

Well, what do you think about the claim that local authorities are refusing to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, and what alternative do you think the administration sh- should pursue if that even is the case?

Uh, how impactful were those new faces, you think?

I think we saw some really good signs.

There are six, only six of them participated.

One still had some degree work to finish up at Colorado.

He'll join the team in June.

That's DJ McKinnie.

And then Quincy Porter, one of the Ohio State wide receivers, had a knee surgery, uh, in January, and he missed spring, but he is going to be back for the summer.

They found their stride in the Big 12 now, but I'm curious on the Notre Dame side being, you know, the standard with faith-based universities.

Yeah.

Very similar to what you said with F1.

If you think about our sport, we have 18 holes that are played over a course of 150, 200 acres.

So that's basically 18 different arenas that we have running concurrently during the course of an event.

Not only that, but you have sometimes 144 or 156 players all playing in the event that week as well.

And so you have all these different fields of play.

You have all these different players.

So how did your team balance speed, accuracy, and storytelling quality that the fans expect? Because if anything's slightly off, they will pick you up on it, won't they, straight away?